CRYPTO cash fans around the world are tucking into slices of pizza today – thanks to one man’s very, very costly appetite.
Programmer Laszlo Hanyecz made history when he made the first “real world” purchase with Bitcoin more than a decade ago.
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However, little did he know when he spent 10,000 Bitcoin on two Papa John’s pies it would also secure him a place in the crypto currency hall of fame.
He also had no clue that 11 years later the coins – worth around £30 at the time – would be now be worth more than £306million.
It is a fortune which could have bought him a private island, a luxurious mansion, and several private jets.
Amazingly, Laszlo insists he has absolutely no sleepless nights over his impulse purchase one lunchtime in 2010.
He has said: “I don’t regret it. I think that it’s great that I got to be part of the early history of Bitcoin in…
